It makes me sick to keep hearing the mostly Democratic assertion
that Donald J. Trump is a candidate foisted on us poor, gullible
Americans by the Russian government. This is largely a matter of
psychological projection by the left, and of mind-boggling hypocrisy.
Previous American governments (mostly Democratic) have a long,
shameful history of removing foreign leaders they dislike, for one
reason or another, and replacing them with more agreeable figures.

It’s hard to know quite where to begin, and absolutely
impossible to be exhaustive. General Smedley Darlington Butler(1881-
1940), twice winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, tells a
long, bloody tale in his little book
War Is
A Racket, in which he demonstrates that the United States
Marines were sent on gunboats to various places across our sad,
scarred, and war-weary planet—notably to South and Central
America—to protect the interests (with rifles and bayonets, if
necessary) of corporations like the United Fruit Company. Costa Rica,
Honduras, Guatamala have all suffered from this kind of interference.
That’s why they’re called “banana
republics”.

In 1953, the people of Iran had thrown the Shah off the throne and
replaced him with an elected official by the name of Mosaddegh.
British and American “intelligence” were alarmed. If the
guy was a communist (he was not) he might cut off the supply of oil on
which they had become dependent to enforce their will on the world, So
they deposed him and set the Shah back on the throne, setting the
scene for today’s unholy (and extremely dangerous) mess.

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina was the dictator of the Dominican
Republic (which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti) for many
decades. He was thoroughly brutal and corrupt, but a time came when
his government began to break up, threatening the
“stability” of the Caribbean region. In 1961. he was
assassinated spectacularly by riflemen in ambush. (Oddly, I recall his
car body being blown off the frame by a bazooka.) Wikipedia teeters
between blaming his dozens of political rivals and the CIA. At the
time it happened, everybody I knew (I was growing up in the
military—counter insurgency branch) took the latter theory for
granted.

And in 1963, in the middle of the War in Vietnam, when a dictator
named Diem failed to do America’s bidding, the kindly, humane,
genteel, and oh-so-Democratic President John F. Kennedy had him
assassinated and replaced.

Little Panama, itself a creature of regime change (it had belonged
to Colombia until the Marines showed up) saw the forcible imprisonment
of its own head-of-state, Manuel Noriega, in 1989.

The Bushes had no legitimate reason to invade Iraq. There were no
“weapons of mass destruction” there, and what if there
were? Are we the only country allowed to have them? Not one Iraqi had
anything to do with 9/11. Yet, using that as an excuse, we crashed in
and murdered their leader, starting a hideous war that Americans are
now suffering for at home.

Lately, Egypt, tossed over by England and France for two hundred
years, its previous governments toppled by the whim of the West, now
has a military government barely holding the vile Muslim Brotherhood
at bay, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama, while, thanks to the good
offices of NATO, and the UN, the legitimate (and fairly stable)
government of Moammar Gaddafi (admittedly not a nice guy, but no
Jihadist) was dashed to pieces and the General hideously
murdered—for which Hillary Clinton bears chief moral
responsibility.

Now look: calling this situation “a dog’s
breakfast” is a colossal understatement. It is massive global
mismanagement at its worst, the same psychology and politics which, at
the end of World War One made World War Two inevitable. I have left
out dozens, maybe hundreds more examples. But alarmingly. a recent
election of class president at a Texas university was set aside
because the administration didn’t think the result was
“diverse” enough.

Regime change. Hey, Texas, don’t you know that lamp-poles are
a dual-use device?

But as usual. I have digressed. The point is that the same
creatures who made a train-wreck of the world are at it again, now
trying to deprive the people of America of their choice, calling for
Donald Trump’s impeachment before he hardly sat behind the
Resolution desk in the Oval Office. Hillary Clinton, Charles
Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Al Franken … the list of
scum is too long for this newsletter. They are the “insane
barbers” that shaved the world in Treasure of the Sierra
Madre and we must rid ourselves of their repulsive presence. The
place to begin is with a national effort to recall one or two of them
and the rest will crawl back under their rocks.

It worked okay in Colorado.

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